Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

Twitterers and bloggers are live - blogging left and right. If you're in San Francisco for the event, be sure to stop by TechSoup Global's booth (#2) in the Grand Ballroom and check out the five TechSoup Global-led sessions taking place today and tomorrow (some of our regular TechSoup bloggers will be presenting!) The time has come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era (LNE).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. I discover and rediscover bloggers who make me think and add them to my “Circle of the Wise.&# I allow no more than dozen and if I find someone new, I remove one. Her blog posts certainly get me to think!

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Take Frogloop’s Editor, Allyson Kapin, as your muse and build a community of bloggers. Having a venue from which your organization can share its knowledge will expand your audiences, and build a robust internal culture. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends. Start with your nonrprofit's team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Courtesy of Katya Andresen, publisher of Getting to the Point I am asked almost weekly how to convince nonbelievers in an organization give social networking efforts a try. There is no shame in gaining knowledge from mistakes – for you, or your boss. Tags: guest blogging social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Social Media Productivity Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

for online community managers or what education technology bloggers like Stephen Downes call " Personal Learning Environment." Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts. It strikes me that this a fantastic model for professional development 2.0 Also, if I was new to the field - it's really overwhelming to play catch up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

When Change.org started less than two years ago, its main focus was to be a social network where nonprofits and their supporters could connect and take action. In early October, the network re-launched as a social action blog network. org) blog social change activism social network Change.org

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Creating a Blog within your Community - Why send the traffic back to Word Press and Blogger? This also builds a knowledge repository and archives of the agenda, project management, logistical, and budgetary plans.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Check out the Forum’s Giving Circles Knowledge Center to learn more about this innovative form of giving and learn best practices for starting and tapping into giving circles. Buddy up with women bloggers. Check out Care2.com. A LOT of women hang out in the Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. 3. The book made Philanthrocapitalism’s Books of the Year List (so did Networked Nonprofit). Pick up your copy of the book on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

That we should lobby the US government to restrict US companies from selling the filtering and monitoring software that many oppressive regimes use to track and then detain bloggers and other online activists. That is, not to think of it as apart from the rest or the West but as integrated and with knowledge flowing in both directions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Even found an artist social network that is called Dripbook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Why not share their knowledge on your blog? Example: Urban Sprouts uses a Blogger blog as its website. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Michele's screencast is about how reading, posting, and commenting all interact to extend knowledge about a topic and to expand the network of interactions.) Usually, my morning ritual of RSS reader, email, and twitter and social networking dipping turn up some sort of pattern. plus serendipity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

into gaining web social (networking) skills. What sent me on a trip down memory lane was this excellent post by David Wilcox describing a new role for an online facilitator using social networking and media tools. Is an online facilitator of people using social networkings -- are they a passive observer or an instigator?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. Does this story illustrate the art of network weaving ?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. You have VIP’s, media and everyday influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. How does social networking/web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Good or bad thing? was about access and Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. It's supposed to be about practical application of scientific knowledge, not fear, dependence, or belief. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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JUNE 27, 2008

Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. It seems like a particularly useful format for people new to the field who may not have the social networks that grant access to the informal hallway conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. Networked Nonprofits know how to listen, engage, and build relationships on Facebook that allow them to reach their goals. Networked Nonprofits practice deep engagement techniques on Facebook. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

He talks about the "Cloud" a word to describe how we're all more closely connected through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and etc. Where they lose grasp of that knowledge, that’s the space where coups, palace revolutions and popular revolts take place. Here are the bits that resonated with me. I'm struck by this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

Interestingly, women are very interested in social networking and have evidenced faster growth in the use of Facebook than have men. Both men and women respond well to social networking, depending upon their generation, for it is by age group – not gender – that differences in use appear. Bearman, with H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued. Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. into “Stories” that can then be easily shared on social media and embeded on websites and blogs. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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